Topic: Your latest retro purchase

Kendo Rage for SNES

mega man 8 brand new sealed for ps1

Wow I feel sorry for you. That is probably the worst Megaman game ever.

Yeah, I hope that didn't cost you very much. Either way, prepare yourself for "jump jump Slide Slide!"

Thanks Mickeymac you had to mention jump, jump, slide, slide. Now I got that annoying voice in my head.

got if for 15$ total, if i get all the first ones again (1-7) ill have 8 as well and cant forget 9 and 10...im just thinkin

@WaveBoy Looks like the cheapest CIB Contra on Ebay is going for $40 + $4 shipping. Speaking of Contra, my buddy and I played through it the other night and of course we used the Konami code. Lets just say hs retro gaming skills have diminished. Actually, I don't think he had the greatest ones to begin with! haha... He couldn't get over how difficult those games were compared to the regenerating health and save points around every corner weak sauce of today. I actually like Super C better than Contra, I am not the biggest fan of the "3D" levels and the final level and boss are a little underwhelming. But nontheless, still an awesome NES game that is a MUST for any NES collection! B-D

So how do you have T&C displayed? Proudly I hope and hopefully not just in some closet with the boogeyman and your dirty socks My wife is just going to love my NES collection out and about displayed all the while it continues to grow!

Oh, and nice 80's movie reference! "All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, an' I'm fine."

Was Donatello your favorite NInja Turtle? Mine was Michaelangelo. Do you have Mortal Kombat, I don't but it does look cool and I might redbox it for a couple of days. Street Fighter III you say, I have never played that actually... Blue cartridges??? Was that some Canadian thing? Vice Project Doom made the cover of Nintendo Power! If you would like a game that have a little Shmup, FPS, and action platforming all bundled up in one Game Pak then I recommend you check out some reviews and vids if you have not yet already done so.

I have not played StarTropics yet, I have just tested it to make sure it works. The title screen tune is catchy, looking forward to hearing the rest of the MIDI's. Should I replace the battery? I do plan on playing it in the near future, probably after I finish decapitating fiends in Ninja Gaiden Sigma II with the Dragon Sword.

Some of my favorite games on the cover. Mega Man III was my first, I think it is Issue 30

Before the Internet and still the best way to get help with NES games if you need it.

I loved looking at "Classified Information" and discovering some cool new codes for my games This one I just opened and found codes for TMNT II.

It would be great to get the magazines I missed before the Mega Man III cover. That is sweet that you are currently subscribed to Nintendo Power, I am tempted. I would probably be a little dissapointed with not seeing enough NES and SNES info though!

Shadowgate - you should be able to find cheap CIB, like $10-$15, Mega Man 2 well I am sure you know... One of these days I will pick both those up. NInja Gaiden III is on the top of my list.

@Ryno: The Blue Cartridges were made by a company who didnt have the ok from Nintendo to make games for the NES. But found away to bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip on the NES. I dont know if you know this but back in the day Nintendo was really strict about who can make games for them and how many they can make per year, which was a direct result of the Video Game Crash of '83. Companies who didnt have the ok from Nintendo still made games for the NES but the cartridges looked different than your licensed NES game, the most famous of these cartridges were by a company named Tengen (which was Atari) and their famous black cartridges. Just like Tengen had the black cartridges another company that I dont remember who had blue cartridges. They still worked in the NES just like the gray ones. You can find more of this from articles on the web or from Wikipedia.

Thats a nice Nintendo Power collection you have there. That is one thing of my old video game days I still had were my issues of Nintendo Power. The only two I have left are the first one with SMB 2 on the cover and the 50th one with Link's Awakening. Unfortunately all my other issues fell apart from so much use.

the blue and green colored carts were made by the company called Color Dreams

@Oldgamesonly: Thats right. and if my memory servers me werent most of those blue carts religious based games?

@tasuki
they were mostly known for religious games, but Color Dreams made other games like Captian Comic and all their games sucked. a game company that made illegal religious games...as AVGN said lol
my local retro game store is selling one for 40$ cart only...

It's not illegal to make unlicensed games.
And I can't remember if they actually said it or if was just speculation that they started making religious games because Nintendo would be less likely to pursue them and risk getting bad press.

@Waveboy: Yep Mondo Gecko was late to the TMNT series he appeared in only one episode I believe which was his background story telling of his origin. I have seasons 1-4 on DVD I just need to get the others. As for those Pizza Monsters that always ticked me off that they never made a toy either, which is surprising cause alot of people remember that episode heck they even put those monsters in TMNT: Turtles in Time. I mean it just didnt make sense they had a toy of the Mousers.

@WaveBoy
Nice haul! Kid Icarus should be in everyone's NES collection, unfortunately though it is not in mine yet

Mondo Gecko is too cool for school. The Tech Deck's of today have nothing on Mondo's skateboard. The engine on the back of that thing is so powerfull it needs quad exhaust! Only someone who is mondo could handle that. The other figures are just awesome as well. Action figures of today got nothing on the bright colored TMNT figures of yesteryear.

Pee-Wee's playhouse on DVD, get out of here! That show manager to entertain but feel weird for watching at the same time. We still bust out Pee-Wee's Christmas special on VHS at Christmas over at Gram's house.

Waveboy and Tasuki should post your pics of your TMNT figures!

Picked up my first ever retro purchase video game today at goodwill for 2$, Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Minus the manual, it's in pretty good shape. And so my retro video game collection begins.

@Waveboy: I used to have that Baxter Stockman figurine! He was a favorite of mine. Wonder what happened to him?

@WaveBoy
man i used to have all them TMNT figures...my grandma would hit toys r us up early in the morning and get the hard to find figures for me as well...you should add Fugitoid, Slash and Muck Man to the collection if you havent yet...

@Ryno: All my figures are buried in my storage shed (Seems like all my Retro stuff is there lol). When I have an extra room in my house some day I hope to pull that stuff out to display them.

@Oldgamesonly: I remember when I first got Slash I thought he was the coolest looking TMNT villain ever lol. I dont know if you guys knew this but the Slash figure and the Tokka (The Snapping Turtle from the second TMNT movie) figure used the same mold for everything except for the head. They even had the same weapons.

I wonder if they'll ever produce a 4th TMNT movie. TMNT still has almost as much popularity as it did when we were adolescents. I used to watch PeeWee's Playhouse religiously as a child as well. I wonder how big his ball of aluminum foil has gotten to be. I watched The Super Mario Bro's Super Show, Sonic the animated series and the Beetlejuice animated series as well. Sadly the only retro games I own now are on VC.

They did make a fourth movie it came out in 2007 and it was CGI.